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From rotten fish left in Mario Balotelli's £150,000 Maserati to anything Gazza ever did ever, footballers love a practical joke. So spare a thought for young player Tom Preston at Northern Premier League side Lancaster City. With his ankle hurting he did what any aspiring footballer should do... e contacted the physio for a little advice so he would be fit for Saturday. But things took a turn when poor Tom managed to get the wrong number - and started texting Dolly Blues midfielder Rob Wilson instead. Football League veteran Craig Stanley, who has probably seen it all with a long career at Morecambe, Bristol Rovers and Lincoln, takes up the story on twitter - as Tom 'gets the best rehab advice ever.' Craig only put up the tweets a few hours ago, but they've already been widely shared. Craig wrote: "One of the young lads texted who he thought was the Physio about his bad ankle/foot. Unfortunately for him it was RobWils8 who gave him the best rehab advice ever!" Underneath are … [Read more...] about Footballer texts wrong number when asking physio for help and things get weird

The World Transformed, a far-left festival running concurrently with the Labour Party conference, is in full swing this week in Liverpool. Supposedly a cross between policy lab and a Jeremy Corbyn-themed religious experience, it has grown in two years from a fringe event to a major crowd-puller. Momentum are no longer an unknown entity, Novara Media are mainstream and the politicians on the panels of this socialist jamboree are Labour royalty. Conference may still draw the media, but this is where the grassroots are. In the midst of a row over antisemitism, with Brexit day fast approaching, there seemed no better time to discover what sort of event it really is. The epicentre, in the city’s Baltic Triangle district, was located next to a large Peaky Blinders-themed bar and restaurant. Why you’d pick a site next to a tribute to a series that descends into farcical power struggles and paranoia, featuring Jewish stereotypes, Russians and the IRA for a Labour-related … [Read more...] about ‘At Momentum’s World Transformed conference, things are getting weird’

Pop superstars Little Mix bring their UK tour to the County Ground in Northampton next week. After kicking off in Hove this week, they will headline the Wantage Road venue next Thursday as part of their Summer Hits Tour 2018. The gig will see the Little Mix play their biggest hits including Touch, Shout Out to My Ex, Black Magic and Wings. The group released their latest single Only You last month with US DJs Cheat Codes. The track is part of the forthcoming compilation album The Pool Party which is due out this month Little Mix comprise of singers Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards The group formed in 2011 during the eighth series of The X Factor, going onto be the first group to win the competition. Their debut album DNA followed in 2012 with Salute following in 2013 and Get Weird in 2015. Little Mix released The Platinum Edition of their smash hit fourth album Glory Days in November last year. The original version of the album spent five weeks at … [Read more...] about Little Mix get ready for their Northampton gig

There’s nothing like an endangered species listing to engender a sense of urgency. That was the case for US actor Rosario Dawson and a host of Australian celebrities who have lent their talents to the Wilderness Society’s #saveugly campaign to draw attention to Australia’s less charismatic animals under threat. “Our star turtle, our Mary river turtle, was on the brink of becoming endangered and she became endangered while we were shooting,” says Dawson, speaking from Los Angeles as the campaign launched last week. The #saveugly video is charming and funny, with Dawson dancing around dressed as the Ethmia clytodoxa moth. The turtle is voiced by Cate Blanchett and the ghost shark by Joel Edgerton. But the campaign message is important: all wildlife has a role to play in a balanced ecosystem. “We can just focus on the things that are comfortable or the things that are easy or the things that get the most attention,” says Dawson. “The ugly … [Read more...] about Rosario Dawson on getting weird for ugly animals: ‘I’m not afraid to get my jazz hands on’

You’ve learnt to deal with your raging hormones, you’re totally over your needle phobia (because you had no choice), and you’re so familiar with the “dildocam” that you kinda feel empty without it. There’s just one more bizarre IVF experience to deal with: the embryo transfer. Hang tight… here’s what happens: Dehydration never felt so desirableThe weirdness will start when you drink more water than a drowning camel but aren’t allowed to pee. Then you’ll get taken into theatre and scanned through your tummy, where a nurse will tut and tell you that your bladder still isn’t full enough. So you’ll go back into the waiting room and load up on vending machine tea out of styrofoam cups, before waddling back to theatre while complaining about the disgustingness of UHT milk. The nurse will tut some more but say she thinks your bladder is full enough now. “You THINK it’s full enough now???” you say to … [Read more...] about The Stages Of Embryo Transfer: When IVF Gets Weird